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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" the mind of conservatives
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"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" the mind of conservatives (Original Post)
Shellback Squid
Nov 2025
OP
MAGA fuckstains are shitting their pants and then shitting the bed with their series of fuckups.
SoFlaBro
Nov 2025
#1
"Americans will always do the right thing -- after they've tried everything else."
Buns_of_Fire
Nov 2025
#2
SoFlaBro
(3,790 posts)1. MAGA fuckstains are shitting their pants and then shitting the bed with their series of fuckups.
Buns_of_Fire
(19,161 posts)2. "Americans will always do the right thing -- after they've tried everything else."
~ (probably not Churchill...) https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/11/11/exhaust-alternatives/
ananda
(35,140 posts)7. H L Mencken?
maybe
Skittles
(171,698 posts)3. repukes cannot run on their shitty record
so they'll be quadrupling down on the lying and cheating and gerrymandering and suppression, etc - IOW, business as usual
Johonny
(26,173 posts)4. Transgender frogs, DEI, Woke, and critical race theory
Don't cut it as issues when you're in a food line wondering if you make it another week...
Most Trump voters only care about themselves. When times are good, they will vote based on prejudice and bigotry. When their life is completely fucked, they actual care about the economy, health care, and democracy.
Skittles
(171,698 posts)5. I had it out with a Trump voter aquaintance
"I didn't vote for this," she said.....YES YOU DID, I told her, YES YOU FUCKING DID......you thought he'd only hurt BROWN FOLK and GAY FOLK.........well, THIS IS YOUR FUCK AROUND AND FIND OUT moment, CAN'T SAY YOU WEREN'T FUCKING WARNED
OMG THESE FUCKING PEOPLE, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
OMG THESE FUCKING PEOPLE, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
efhmc
(16,656 posts)6. Yikes, they are really good at that. We just need to be much better at that "democracy" thing.